9781422271797

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR

PLATE 4 Lise with a Parasol (1867) Oil on canvas, 71 2 ⁄ 3 x 46 1 ⁄

2 inches (182 x

118 cm)

At this time, Renoir was hoping to make an income from portrait painting and submitted work to the Salon each year after his Esmeralda Dancing with her Goat was accepted in 1863, other works being rejected in 1864, accepted in 1865, and refused in 1865, 1866, and 1867. His Lise with a Parasol was accepted in 1868. Lise Tréhot was sixteen when Renoir painted her, and he saw her as an ideal subject, physically mature but still retaining the freshness of youth. The portrait shows the influence of Manet in the dramatic opposition of dark navy blue belt and sash and brilliant white dress, but with its closely modeled paint treatment and careful drawing of an atmospheric sun dappled background not derived from Manet.

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